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The USPTO and AIPLA partnered to provide mentorship to AIPLA members and participants of the USPTO's Empowering Women's Entrepreneurship - a community-focused, collaborative, and creative initiative to encourage and empower more women founders across America. The program included three webinars and one concluding networking event, on March 13, March 20, April 11, and May 8, focusing on Intellectual Property law topics, advice from AIPLA's women entrepreneurs, and the opportunity to participate in a mentoring group of women with varying skills and experiences.
Miss a session? View the recordings here:
Webinar 1 Recording: Patents and Trade Secrets
Webinar 1 Resources: IP_Checklist_for_Startups
Webinar 2 Recording: Copyright/Trademark
Webinar 2 Resources: Presentation Slides
Webinar 3 Recording: Women Tell All
Mentoring ClustersAIPLA organized mentoring clusters to offer mentorship to mentees identified through the USPTO’s Women Entrepreneur Initiative (a cluster is a group of 3-4 people, including both mentors and mentees). Apply here if you’d like to participate as a mentor.
AIPLA/USPTO Women Entrepreneur Mentoring Program
Miriam Lord is the Associate Register of Copyrights and Director of Public Information and Education for the United States Copyright Office.
Lord oversees the Office of Public Information and Education (PIE), which provides authoritative information about copyright law to the public, implements the Office’s communications plan, publishes comprehensive written and audiovisual materials, develops education and outreach programs and strategic collaborations, and responds to public inquiries about Office policies and practices. She is an expert copyright attorney and one of four legal advisors to the Register of Copyrights.
Before joining the Office, Lord was the director of the Global Intellectual Property Academy at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, providing domestic and international intellectual property capacity-building, technical assistance, and education policy and programs. She has also served as co-lead of the U.S. Department of Commerce Equity Council’s Gender Committee. Previously, she was the director of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the founding administrator of a patent pro bono program for under-resourced inventors, artists, startups, and creative nonprofits.
Lord earned a JD from Villanova University School of Law, where she was a member of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal. She has an undergraduate degree in the design field from Colorado State University.